Lyrics to
Miles Away

This version of Miles Away was released by Fleetwood Mac in 1973.

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The swamp is getting deeper all the time
And the faces that I see don’t seem to shine
Now there’s too much Warhol hanging off the wall
And the mystery that there used to be is gone
Let me go
Miles away
Let me ride
Just miles away
Don’t wanna know
I’m not gonna miss it much
Gonna be drivin’ once again
Don Juan goes up in a cloud of smoke
And all those Hare Krishnas turned out to be a joke
And it’s restless, restless, restless all the time
Slidin’ up and down the surface of this life
Now I know that I can’t say what’s black and white
But if I could fly I think I’d try tonight

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About Lyrics and Miles Away by Fleetwood Mac

The lyrics for Miles Away are defined as the words making up the song released by Fleetwood Mac in 1973. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Miles Away have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Fleetwood Mac and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Miles Away by Fleetwood Mac if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Miles Away" means the words set to the music of Miles Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Fleetwood Mac. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Miles Away and the lyrics to Miles Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Fleetwood Mac who came here looking just for the lyrics to Miles Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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